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French Indian War 1756-1763
The French Indian War fought in the American Colonies and the British gained outstanding territory in North America as the result of the war. -
Navigation Acts 1763
The Navigation Acts were a series of laws passed by the British Parliament that was forced restrictions on colonial trade. -
Stamp Act 1765
Stamp Act was a tax on paper. But not on England. -
Quartering Act 1765
The Quartering Act were requiring colonial authorities to provide food, drink, quarters, fuel, and transportation to British forces stationed in their towns or villages. -
Townshend Acts 1767
The Townshend Act taxed goods imported to the American colonies. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre had a major impact on relations between Britain and the American colonists -
Boston Tea Party
Incident in which 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company were thrown from ships into Boston Harbor by American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians. -
Intolerable Acts
Punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. -
Olive Branch Petition
the final effort of the Second Continental Congress to persuade King George III of England to respond to the concerns of the American Colonists and to settle their differences amicably -
Second Continental Congress
it took the momentous step of declaring America's independence from Britain -
Battle of Lexington & Concord
the start of the American War of Independence -
Common Sense
47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies -
Declaration of Independence
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The introductory sentence states the Declaration's main purpose, to explain the colonists' right to revolution. -
Articles of Confederation
written document that established the functions of the national government of the United States after it declared independence from Great Britain. -
Daniel Shays’ Rebellion
Uprising in western Massachusetts in opposition to high taxes and stringent economic conditions. -
Constitutional Convention
to address the problems of the weak central government that existed under the Articles of Confederation.